OUR STORY

Kogentix Enables Our
Customers To Unlock
The Value Of
Their Data

We founded Kogentix with one premise in mind. We knew that big data and machine learning would play a critical role in transforming enterprises. That’s when we sat down and looked at the gaps in the industry. We filtered them down to three main issues.

CREATING BUSINESS VALUE

There is a lot of emphasis in the AI community on technologies such as neural networks and GPU acceleration, and not enough on ensuring that machine learning insights drive specific business results. The foundation of our technology and services is creating business outcomes.

MANAGING SKILLS AND RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS

Effective machine learning applications requires interdisciplinary skills including expertise in new languages like Java and Scala, data science and statistics acumen, and experience with data architecture. Any solution must make experts more efficient and enable a broader population to be productive.

INTEGRATING WITH SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES

The best predictive insights are useless unless they inform and initiate action. Kogentix AMP is built to serve insights into existing systems, automating and operationalizing machine learning to create results at scale.

We believe that dramatic cost, scalability, and versatility advantages of open source big data would only become real with a business solution focus.

Our founders have been leaders in Hadoop since 2009, building enterprise solutions since the very beginning of the big data era:

Our CEO led Intel Corporation’s big data efforts and created a leadership position in China by addressing the needs of some of the largest enterprises in the world. He oversaw the massive investment into Cloudera that represented a major milestone in the maturation of the platform.

The founders each have decades of experience in data management, and have built open-source big data solutions for large enterprises. The founders spun out MetaScale from Sears and worked for industry leading provider Knightsbridge.

Leadership Team

BOYD DAVIS

co-Founder and CEO

Boyd Davis is Chief Executive Officer and a co-founder of Kogentix. Prior to founding Kogentix, Davis was Chief Operating Officer of Cask Data, a Palo Alto based venture-backed startup responsible for the leading application platform for Apache Hadoop. Davis started his career at Intel Corporation, where he worked for over two decades in a variety of sales, marketing, and general management positions. His last role at Intel was Vice President and General Manager of the Datacenter Software Division, a group which he formed to expand Intel’s business model into software. His team launched Intel’s distribution of Apache Hadoop and created a market leading position for Intel Hadoop in China. Those efforts ultimately led to Intel’s strategic investment in Cloudera to further optimize and accelerate adoption of Hadoop globally. Davis graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1990, and he resides in Portland, OR with his wife and his three children.

SANJAY GOGIA

co-Founder and COO

Sanjay Gogia is Chief Operating Offficer and a co-founder of Kogentix. At Kogentix, Sanjay is responsible for operations, finance, and executive sponsorship of key accounts. Sanjay co-founded Kogentix after departing Intel Corporation, where he ran the big data professional services team supporting Intel’s efforts to expand the market for Apache Hadoop. Sanjay joined Intel through their acquisition of his prior start-up, Xtremeinsights, formed with Kogentix co-founders Jai Malhotra and Krishna Nimmagadda. Xtremeinsights was an early leader in the Hadoop ecosystem, deploying complex and high business value solutions for a variety of large enterprises. Prior to Xtremeinsights, Sanjay held a series of positions with increasing responsibility at several of the most prominent consulting firms in the industry, including IBM, HP, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and KPMG. Sanjay was a senior principle and Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse architect for Knightsbridge Solutions LLC, later acquired by HP. While at Knightsbridge, Sanjay was instrumental in building value for the firm by modernizing infrastructure and helping clients get more value out of their data. Sanjay received a Master of Science in Management of IT from the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce. He resides in the Washington DC area with his wife and two children.

JAI MALHOTRA

co-Founder and CTO

Jai Malhotra is Chief Technical Officer and a co-founder of Kogentix. At Kogentix, Jai leads architecture and technology for products and professional services, and he has spearheaded innovation with several key clients. Jai co-founded Kogentix after departing Intel Corporation, where he drove efforts to extend Apache Hadoop to be more productive and useful as an analytics platform. At Intel, Jai defined and developed an analytics toolkit, enabling data scientists to more quickly deploy machine learning on Hadoop, and he created libraries and utilities that were ultimately delivered as part of Intel’s Internet of Things (IoT) Platform. Jai joined Intel when his prior start-up, Xtremeinsights, was acquired by the company. Formed with Kogentix co-founders Krishna Nimmagadda and Sanjay Gogia, Xtremeinsights delivered cutting edge solutions on Hadoop, taking the data platform well beyond storage and data warehouse offload into high value analytics use cases. Prior to Xtremeinsights, Jai had a decade of experience as a developer then architect for Tata Consultancy Services, Knightsbrige Solutions LLC (later acquired by HP), and IBM Global Services. Jai received his undergraduate engineering degree in India, and studied data science at Stanford University. He resides with his wife and son in the greater Chicago area.

KRISHNA NIMMAGADDA

co-Founder and President

Krishna Nimmagadda is President and a co-founder of Kogentix. At Kogentix, Krishna drives global and strategic expansion efforts and is responsible for the company’s largest multinational accounts. Krishna co-founded Kogentix after departing from Intel Corporation, where he led efforts to grow adoption of open source technologies and distributed computing for customers on the West coast and in APAC. Krishna joined Intel when his prior start-up, Xtremeinsights was acquired by the company to accelerate their Hadoop initiative. Xtremeinsights, formed with Kogentix co-founders Jai Malhotra and Sanjay Gogia, was an early leader helping large enterprises adopt open source big data technology. Prior to Xtremeinsights, Krishna co-founded MetaScale, a big data managed services company spun out of retailer Sears Holdings. MetaScale not only helped modernize the Sears data platform, but it created a new revenue stream in a key adjacent market. Krishna started his entrepreneurial career with over a decade of consulting and large scale system implementation experience at multiple firms. Krishna received an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He resides in San Ramon, CA with his wife and two children.